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cuauhtetepoyo.

Headword: 
cuauhtetepoyo.
Principal English Translation: 

having an eagle claw design
Joe Campbell, Florentine Codex Vocabulary, p. 24. See: https://www.scribd.com/document/136634572/NAHUATL-Florentine-Codex-Dicti...

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtetenpoyo, cuauhtetentpoyyo
Attestations from sources in English: 

...with the eagle's claw motif called cuauhtetepoyo, i.e., tetepoyyo, assimilated from teteponyo, "having the knee {= leg) of an eagle" (see Nicholson 1994)
https://qdoc.tips/primeros-memoriales-texto-pdf-free.html

cuauhtetepoyo = shield
Primeros Memoriales, Bernardino de Sahagún, ‎Thelma D. Sullivan, ‎Henry B. Nicholson (1997), 319.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.